shoot upverb

• 1

  To grow taller or larger rapidly.

  • Our operating costs have shot up due to the fuel shortage.
  • He was a small child, but shot up when he reached his teenage years.
• 2

  To fire many bullets or shells at.

  • The terrorists decided to shoot up a convenience store.
  • There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. "Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […]."
• 3

  To use up (ammunition) by shooting.

  • Most of our ammunition has now been shot up.
• 4

  To inject (a drug) intravenously.

  • This place is always full of smackheads shooting up.
  • For did we not, all of us, know scores of friends who used drugs to energize their workouts, who smoked dope, took speed, and shot up anabolic steroids to facilitate that mad, muscular frenzy?
• 5

  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shoot, up.